Re: ide-cd problems

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Aug 05 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-08-04 at 06:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Absolutely not. I've already outlined why in my previous mails I don't
> > want to see anything like this, and this patch is even worse than
> > filtering. Additionally, you risk breaking existing programs.
> 
> Existing broken programs. 
> 
> Once you do filtering so you don't need CAP_SYS_RAWIO to lob some
> commands at a device that becomes the place to enforce sensible policies
> because the filter knows what is "read" and what is "write" so it can do
> different checks for say "eject" (read) "write" (write) and "erase
> firmware" (raw I/O)

Alan, there will be _no_ filtering.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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